Entertainment Media Research

Survey: ISP Warning Would Stop 70% of U.K. File-Swappers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 4, 2008 - 8:27am.

London - With the U.K. government considering whether or not to make Internet service providers cut off service to customers who repeatedly engage in illegal file-sharing, a new report issued in the country suggest that 70% of consumers there would stop such actions if they received a warning from their ISP. The 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, conducted by Entertainment Media Research and commissioned by U.K. media law firm Wiggin LLP, further found that the percentage of users who would cease illegal file-sharing rises to 78% among male teenagers.